All comments to be attributed to Matthew Adam, chief executive of digital and financial inclusion support provider We Are Digital. “Earlier this month (08 February), energy watchdog Ofgem announced that it would be raising its maximum price cap by 5.5%.... View Article

A drop in the average UK house price of the scale seen in the last financial crisis would put nearly half a million households at risk of negative equity, the UK’s largest third-party mortgage servicer has revealed. Computershare Loan Services,... View Article

A third of children in social housing and a quarter of children in private-rented accommodation live in overcrowded conditions. The London Assembly is concerned that without enough three and four-bedroom family-sized homes, the problem of overcrowding will get worse in... View Article

Bjorn Conway, CEO, ilke Homes: “ilke Homes welcomes the news that the government’s Housing Implementation Taskforce met at Downing Street today. Homes England’s role is reinforced and there seems to be strengthening cross-Government commitment to dealing with the issues demonstrated by the... View Article

According to the latest ONS figures private rental prices paid by tenants in London grew by 0.4 percent in 2017, stretching the budget of the average London house hunter. Further insights from the LSL Rental Index found that London rents... View Article

It his been reported that the Labour party plans to force landowners to sell their land to the state for a fraction of its value, in order to reduce the cost of constructing additional council houses. Nick Leavey, Partner and Head of the Commercial Property team... View Article

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has strongly welcomed the announcement over the weekend that the Government will now be supporting Karen Buck MP’s Private Members Bill on housing and landlords. The Labour MP’s bill seeks to update the... View Article

As the UK’s population is set to exceed the 70 million mark and house prices continue to rise alongside interest rates, solicitors at JMW warn a property crisis will result in more multi-generational households in 2018 than ever before. The... View Article

Sadiq fulfils manifesto promise to launch Rogue Landlord and Agent Checker – London’s first online ‘name and shame’ database to help private renters More than 600,000 renters can now check dodgy landlords and letting agents as records from the first... View Article

The Construction Products Association has welcomed the publication of the interim report from Dame Judith Hackitt’s Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety. Having consulted widely with the industry including the CPA, the Review team has singled out two... View Article

Today it has been announced that Purfleet Centre Regeneration Limited (“PCRL”) have, following extensive consultation and with the support of the local community in Purfleet, submitted an application for outline planning permission for their £1 billion regeneration scheme for Purfleet... View Article

Polly Neate, CEO of Shelter, said: “Six months on from the horror of Grenfell and there is still much to be done to aid the survivors and to ensure that nothing like it can ever happen again. “We have seen... View Article